Brewer's: Dished

(l syl.). I was dished out of it. Cheated out of it; or rather, some one else contrived to obtain it. A contraction of disherit. The heir is dish't out of his inheritance when his father marries again and leaves his property to the widow and widow's family.

“Where's Brummel? Dished!”

Byron: Don Juan.

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